Just curious... what sort of farked up training does a dog have to go through to detect traces of trinitrotoluene or whatever explosives and then communicate that detection. I am not saying whatever training involved is cruel it is just unusual.

I don't know about the tactic being used afterward, but during the German/Soviet war the Soviets used dogs as anti-tank weapons. They trained dogs in a Pavlovian way to think that food was found underneath tanks. Then they strapped mines to the dogs and released them on the front lines. The dogs would then run underneath a German tank and BOOM!